MediaWiki:Licenses

• High-free (preferred):
  • Public Domain:
    • PD|old|Public Domain - copyright has expired
    • PD|usgov|Public Domain - authored by the U.S. government
    • CC-public-domain-dedication|Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC-public-domain-dedication)
    • PD-new|Public Domain - newer work, no rights reserved (PD-new)
    • PD-self|Public Domain - self-made work (PD-self)
    • PD-not-copyrightable|Non-scalable font(s) or symbolic character(s) (PD-not-copyrightable)
    • PD-projectgutenberg|Public Domain image obtained from the Project Gutenberg (PD-projectgutenberg)
    • PDB|Protien Data Bank image (PDB)
  • Creative Commons:
    • CC|by|1.0|Creative Commons Attribution 1.0 Unported (CC-by-1.0)
    • CC|by|2.0|Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Unported (CC-by-2.0)
    • CC|by|2.5|Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Unported (CC-by-2.5)
    • CC|by|3.0|Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-by-3.0)
    • CC|by-sa|1.0|Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 Unported (CC-by-sa-1.0)
    • CC|by-sa|2.0|Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Unported (CC-by-sa-2.0)
    • CC|by-sa|2.5|Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Unported (CC-by-sa-2.5)
    • CC|by-sa|3.0|Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC-by-sa-3.0)
  • Other High-free
    • NKR|Library of Congress "no known restrictions"
    • Multi-licence|{{CC|by-sa|3.0}}|{{GNU|FDL|1.2|+}}|Dual-licensed CC-by-sa 3.0 and GFDL 1.2+
    • GFDL|GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)
    • GNU|LGPL|2.1|+|GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1+
    • FAL-1.2|Free Art License version 1.2 (FAL-1.2)
    • Attribution|Copyrighted - but no re-usage restrictions except must attribute to author (attribution)
• Intermediate-free:
  • Creative Commons licenses:
    • CC|by-nd|1.0|Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 1.0 Unported
    • CC|by-nd|2.0|Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Unported
    • CC|by-nd|2.5|Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.5 Unported
    • CC|by-nd|3.0|Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
    • CC|by-nc|1.0|Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 1.0 Unported
    • CC|by-nc|2.0|Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Unported
    • CC|by-nc|2.5|Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Unported
    • CC|by-nc|3.0|Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported
    • CC|by-nc-sa|1.0|Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 Unported
    • CC|by-nc-sa|2.0|Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Unported
    • CC|by-nc-sa|2.5|Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Unported
    • CC|by-nc-sa|3.0|Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
    • CC|by-nc-nd|1.0|Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 1.0 Unported
    • CC|by-nc-nd|2.0|Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Unported
    • CC|by-nc-nd|2.5|Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Unported
    • CC|by-nc-nd|3.0|Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
  • Other Intermediate-free
    • Morguefile|Morguefile License Agreement - morguefile.com
    • Attribution-commercialrestriction|Copyrighted - author requires attribution and restricts commercial usages (attribution-commercialrestriction
    • Attribution-noderivas|Copyrighted - author requires attribution and restricts the making of derivitives (attribution-noderivas)
    • Bypermission-reuse|Copyrighted - third-party re-use permitted, some restrictions - documented permission or self-authored (bypermission-reuse)
    • PD-butrequest|Public Domain - but provider has requested certain restrictions be honored that I will document (PD-butrequest)
    • PD-butclaim|Public Domain - but provider claims some kind of restriction rights that I will document (PD-butclaim)
• Non-free
  • Bypermission-noreuse|Copyrighted - no third-party re-use, used by documented permission (bypermission-noreuse). See CZ:Permissions before uploading
  • Copyrighted|Copyrighted - All Rights Reserved. I will document permission of the copyright holder or am the author (copyrighted).
  • Promo-photo|Promotional photo - an exact copy of a copyrighted promotional photo released by its originating entity (Promo-photo)
  • Fairuse|Fair use - not allowable currently (fair use). See CZ:Permissions for alternatives.
• Specialty licenses
  • MPL-1.1|Mozilla Public License Version 1.1 (MPL-1.1)
  • Stockxchng-standard|Stockxchng standard license (Stockxchng-standard).
• Not listed
  • Needmediatemplate|Not listed - be sure to write out info if selecting (Needmediatemplate).